Sentence examples for great defeat from inspiring English sources

"America has suffered a great defeat.

"This is a point on the way to a great defeat for Israel," he said.

But his impact extended beyond his victories and his great defeat.

"It would be another great defeat for all of us if it doesn't happen this year".

As the Duke of Wellington said, the only thing worse than a great victory is a great defeat.

"It was Napoleon's first great defeat," says the film's producer, Paulo Branco, who was promoting it in Cannes.

Pushed to the point of extinction in Scotland and failing to make any real progress in England, Labour closes election 2015 with another of the great defeats that define so much of the party's history.

Poltava was named for the victory at the 1709 Battle of Poltava when Peter the Great defeated King Charles XII of Sweden.

Without being overly determinist about these things, one can still say that great defeats can inspire resentments and dreams of restoration for a very long time.

Chronology suggests that it was not until the end, when Germany was suffering great defeats on the battlefield and seeing its cities torched to the ground, that extermination programs were enacted.

The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man.